yogthos

Thank you for taking your valuable time away from huffing gas to grace us with your deep and profound insights.

It's very revealing how casually liberals spit out populist as an insult. The derogatory use of the word unmasks their real conviction that majority rule is only admirable when the majority thinks like them. Strip away the varnish and their ideal is not democracy at all, but a stewardship by the enlightened elites who keep the unwashed masses at bay.

Exactly, they act as a pressure relief valve for the system ensuring that public anger doesn't boil over into meaningful action that threatens the ruling class in any way.

that's about the short of it

also don't forget this gem https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-israeli-startup-entrepreneurs-played-roles-in-rise-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/

Ukraine's what now?

I'm sure the regime is thrilled to have thousands of new volunteers to send to the front.

It’s telling how quickly liberals leap to AOC’s defense while downplaying the atrocities she enables. They preach 'principled' human rights rhetoric, only to treat genocide as just another political bargaining chip. Moral bankruptcy has never been so transparent.

It depends on what aspect of theory you're interested in.

For introductory material, I can highly recommend Blackshirts and Reds by Parenti. It's well written, and gives a good overview of socialism in a modern context.

I thought these books discussing socialism in the context of China were pretty good as well

• The East is Still Red https://redletterspp.com/products/the-east-is-still-red
• People's China at 75 – The Flag Stays Red https://redletterspp.com/products/peoples-china-at-75
• China's Great Road https://redletterspp.com/products/chinas-great-road

For an intro on the modern economic theory aspect, Geopolitical Economy Hour with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson is pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL1ObLixT8M&list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Homomorphic encryption has been around for a while now, but practical applications have been limited so far.

there are already existing approaches tackling this problem https://github.com/MemTensor/MemOS

It's absolutely adorable that somebody could be so utterly ignorant as to think that the west doesn't hold political prisoners.